District Governors from Globe Lions Club
George R. Rawlins 1929-30 Van Bergen 1993-94
Creed Troutman 1945-46 Guy Anderson 1996-97
Clyde Elrod 1953-54 Ernie Soto 2001-02
Louis S. Rayes 1957-58 Donna Anderson 2003-04
Paul Sawaia 1966-67 Bobbie Ravenkamp 2017-18
Engraved on the club's bell:
Past Presidents
Geo. H. Rawlings Feb 11 to June 30, 1928
Orr Woodburn 1928-1929
Anthony Maurel 1929-1930
Walter G. Scott 1930-1931
George A. Vance 1931-1932
Charles J. Alden 1932-1933
Reverse side of bell:
Stolen by
Safford Lions Club
Globe’s 25th Anniversary
April 5, 1968
The First Globe Lions Club – 1928-1933
The Globe Lions Club, which this year [1968] is celebrating its Twenty-fifth Anniversary, is another of many Arizona institutions which can be compared to the Phoenix --- that miraculous bird which, after being consumed by fire, rises in youthful freshness from its own ashes. The Globe Club of today rises on the ashes of a previous Globe Club that flourished in the boom years of the late 20’s and was consumed by the Depression of the early 30’s. But in 1943 there arose from the ashes in youthful freshness a new Lions Club.
The old Globe Lions Club received its charter in January 1928, at a banquet held at the Southern Pacific Restaurant. George B. Anderson, Assistant to Secretary Melvin Jones, and Paul Bosworth of Albuquerque, Deputy District Governor, presented the charter.
The Charter President was George Rawlins, Globe Attorney, who is in a few short years advanced in Lionism and was the First Arizonan to be elected to an international post, that of Member of the Executive Council of the Board of Governors. Lion Creed Troutman was Third Vice-President and is still an active member of the present club.
The first District 21 State Convention was hosted by the Globe Club in 1929, having previously been joined with New Mexico. The convention was held at the Dominion Hotel, YWCA, and the Cobre Valley Country Club.
The old Globe Lions Club was a very active club during its existence. Some of their projects were: aided city officials in getting a civic center; aid the local baseball team; joined another service club in establishing an airport; worked to secure a bridge; sponsorship of Miss Arizona of 1930; support of an Apache boy taking an art course; sponsorship of unemployment relief plan; cooperated with Legion in charity drives; aided in forming County Welfare Board; Get Out to Vote Campaign; aid to Spanish War Veterans Encampment; and purchased brooms from Lions Blind Broom Factory in Tucson.
The year of 1933 was a very dark year for the Globe Club. This was the darkest year of the depression when banks were closing in every state, unemployment at its peak, business at a standstill and Globe’s main industry, the Old Dominion Mine was shut down. The old Club faded away, its Charter given up, and Lionism started a 10 year nap in Globe, to be awakened again in 1943.
By Al Wilke
Past District Governor (1930-31) (story written in 1968)
Front Page article in the Arizona Record on Friday, April 30, 1943 –
“Globe Lions Club Formed; Troutman President
MEETINGS EVERY THURSDAY NOON-DOMINION HOTEL
A Lions Club with 22 charter members was organized at the Dominion Hotel on Tuesday evening under the direction of C. F. Manion, special representative of Lions International. The new club will meet every Thursday noon at the hotel.
Creed Troutman was elected as the first president. Other officers chosen were as follows: Milton I. Evans, first vice-president; George A. Banks, second vice-president; Wm. A. Manning, secretary-treasurer; Marcus Goldberg, lion tamer; E. T. Usher, tail twister; Wm. H. Richardson, W. A. Snead, Milton S. Ray, F. Earl Hamer, directors.
This is the second Lions Club to be organized in Globe. The first club had a large membership, but disbanded about 1930. There is a Lions Club in Miami. The Globe club will be affiliated with the 11th district, composed of Arizona clubs.
The complete membership is as follows: George A. Banks, Dr. Adrian E. Clark, C. M. Compton, Alva J. Davenport, Joe S. Dork, Herbert A. Dunkles, Milton L. Evans, Marcus Goldberg, W. Carl Hall, F. E. Hamer, Wm. E. Hash, J. R. Heron, Joseph F. H………, Joseph F. Kentmoore, James B. Malott, Jr., Wm. S. Manning, Hubert C. Mills, Frank G. Oliverius. Milton S. Ray, W. H. Richardson, Stanley Shaw, Herman H. Smith, J. C. Smith, Marvin H. Smith, W. A. Sneed, Creed Troutman, E. T. Usher, Jr., T. H. Woods, Clyde A. Elrod.”
Notable reporting errors: Gave up charter first charter in 1933 and affiliated with district 21.
(Additional readable signatures on the Charter: J. F. McComack, Walter A. Patridge, Norman Clements, William A. Fritz, W. A. Hixon plus two unreadable signature (badly faded).)
